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Leaders fly
into Tokyo
for funeral
TOKYO -- Kings and presidents
streamed into Tokyo on Wednesday
for the funeral of Emperor Hirohito.
and authorities tightened security even
further because of threats of violence
by radical groups.
King Hussein of Jordan, King Juan
Carlos of Spain and Indonesian Presi
dent Suharto headed a list of 71 dele
gations that arrived Wednesday.
Dignitaries representing 163 coun
tries will be on hand for Friday’s state
funeral for Hirohito, who died Jan. 7
at age 87.
President Bush has an ambitious
agenda of a dozen bnef meetings with
other leaders at the funeral. Bush meets
Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita
Thursday, and first lady Barbara Bush
will take lea with Takeshna's wife,
Naoko.
Emperor Akihito and Empress
Michiko. who have made daily visits
to join in a vigil in the chamber in the
Imperial Palace where Hirohuo’s coffin
lies, will meet each of the visiting
dignitaries in audiences and functions
scheduled through Tuesday.
As part of the week’s "funeral
diplomacy,” Takeshita met Wednes
day with early arrivals, including
Finnish President Mauno Koivisto,
Soviet Vice President Anatoly Lukya
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Sese Seko of Zaire. He was scheduled
to sec 40 foreign dignitaries before
Sunday.
Japanese authorities, determined
to prevent disruptions of this unprece
dented opportunity for diplomatic
contacts, began strict inspections of
mail and cargo shipments.
In all, 32,000 police will be mobi
lized throughout the city on Friday.
Two charged
with murder
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
- Two men arrested at the home of
black activist Winnie Mandela ap
peared in court Tuesday on charges of
murder, abduction and assault.
Jerry Richardson and Jabu Silhole
were not asked to enter pleas at their
arraignment in Soweto Magistrates
Court. Their case was postponed for a
week.
It is part of a growing scandal sur- ]
rounding the wife of jailed African
National Congress leader Nelson
Mandela, and a group of unofficial
bodyguards who lived at her home in
Soweto, the huge township outside
Johannesburg.
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Tents, wire erected in Texas
to process aliens quickly
BAYVIEW, Texas — The Immi
gration and Naturalization Service
on Tuesday erected tents inside a
fence copped with barbed wire at a
minimum-security prison under a
plan to speed up processing of ali
ens and jail those denied political
asylum.
The Catholic Bishops of Texas
charged that they foresaw “the
creation of the largest concentra
tion camp on U S. soil."
State Department officials be
gan making recommendations on
asykun applications under a plan
arjpbunecfl Monday to deal with an
influx of Centra! American immi
grants and speed up the weeding
out of ‘‘frivolous" claims.
Under the plan, applicants will
get an answer as early as the same
day and will be subject to immedi
ate arrest and detention if denied
as ' n.
ore Tuesday, applications
could take weeks to process, and
aliens were released on their own
recognizance while they awaited
appeals or deportation.
INS began erecting tents at its
rural Port Isabel Service Process
ing Center in Bay view just north of
Brownsville in case lire number of
detainees at the facility exceeds its
1,100-bed capacity. As many as
5,000 could be detained in the large
circus-size tents within the 315 acres,
officials said.
A 7-foot fence topped with barbed
wire surrounds the compound.
The Texas Catholic Conference
said the new policy "ignores the
facts of life in Central America
that are causing the massive influx
of refugees to our country."
"The INS statement speaks of
‘frivolous’ applications. Apparently
any applications by people who
have suffered dreadfully from civil
war are frivolous," it said. "Obvi
ously we are about to witness the
creation of the largest concentra- .
non camp on U S. soil since the
incarceration of Japanese-Ameri
cans during World War II - a shame
ful page in our history."
Tlie Catholic church has been
assisting aliens through several or
ganizations and operates a shelter
for newly arrived Central Ameri
cans. "Apparently the INS is un
aware of President Bush’s plea for
a kinder, gentler America," the
statement said.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas,
called the new policy a "real step
forward.”
"The old policy simply dumped
the Central American immigration
problem into the laps of citizens
and local governments in South
Texas and now the INS has stepped
forward to take some responsibil
ity for the immigrants," Bentsen
said.
Salvadorans propose
cease-fire, elections
OAXTEPEC, Mexico - El Salva
dor’s leftist rebels offered Tuesday to
lay down their weapons if the armed
forces are sharply cut, the pol ice force
reorganized and next month’s presi
dential elections postponed by at least
four months.
The Farabundo Marti National
Liberation Front presented its revised
proposal on the second day of talks
with delegates from 13 political par
ties seeking ways to end El Salva
dor’s nine-year civil war.
The front’s offer attempted to ad
dress a major stumbling block in the
talks - the constitutional requirement
that President Jose Napoleon Duarte
leave office by June 1 - by proposing
an interim president
The proposal appeared to be aimed
at neutralizing El Salvador’s rightist
dominated military, which has warned
publicly it might seize power in a
coup if Duarte does not step down as
scheduled.
The revised proposal came as guer
rillas in El Salvador attacked the
country’s principal army base and an
engineering detachment, leaving eight
dead and 17 injured.
Reports from San Salvador said the
rightist Republican Nationalist Alli
ance, Arena, was standing firm against
postponing the March 19 vote, which
it is favored to win, but deputy chair
man Jose Francisco Merino Lope/
said the party would not lip its hand.
The Arena and guerrilla represen
tatives met for talks Tuesday morn
ing but both groups refused to dis
close details.
At an afternoon news conference,
one Arena delegate, Jose Francisco
Guerrero, called the guerrilla attitude
“sincere” but would not say whether
the party favored or rejected post
ponement of the election.
“Peace is very distant but the dis
tance is not so great,” said Guerrero.
“With the cooperation of the FMLN
and ours we can achieve peace in the
short term.”
Guillermo Ungo, presidential can
didate of the Democratic Convergence,
told reporters here the new guerrilla
proposal was “a very important change
that would give us a better chance for
peace.”
But Ungo said he did not see any
possibility of achieving concrete re
sults. The rebels themselves appeared
pessimistic about the prospects of their
offer.
“Rejection of the proposal will mean
the war will not only continue, but
will escalate,” the radio said.
Rival workers clash, 50 hurt
at South Korean city of Ulsan
SEOUL, South Korea -- More than
50 people were injured Tuesday in a
clash by rival workers in the south
eastern city of Ulsan over resumption
of work at South Korea’s largest ship
yard, news reports said.
The national news agency Yonhap
said fights broke out when about 1,500
pro-management workers slopped
about 1,000 militant unionists from
obstructing operations at Hyundai
Heavy Industries Co.
Labor disputes over wages have
crippled shipyard operations since
December.
In Seoul, riot police dispersed about
1,000 subway workers who rallied in
a downtown plaza, protesting that
management suppressed free labor
union movements. No injuries or ar
rests were reported.
A Labor Ministry report meanwhile
said Tuesday (hat the gulf between
labor and management over wages
will lead to more and longer disputes
this year.
The report, submitted to he Na
tional Assembly, said 116 1 x>r dis
putcs have taken place so tar this
year, compared lo 88 during the same
period last year, and the average du
ration of disputes increased from five
days to 10.
On the political side, radical stu
dents threw hundreds of firebombs
and attacked riot police with clubs
and steel bars Tuesday at an anti
govemment, anli-U.S. rally in this
capital city.
The number of injured was not
reported.
About 300 students shouting "Drive
out Yankees!” and “Overthrow
(President) Roh Tae-woo!” fought
police for an hour in front of the
Hankuk University of Foreign Stud
ies. Students attacked police with rocks
and clubs and police fought back,
also throwing rocks and swinging clubs.
The protest came four days before
the first anniversary of the Roh gov
ernment and less than a week before
President Bush’s visit.
The government has warned that
violence will not be tolerated and
protesters will be harshly punished.
Peace talks end with no treaty, some still remain optimistic
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A second
round of multilateral peace talks on
Cambodia ended without agreement
Tuesday as negotiators failed to bridge
major differences between the war
ring factions.
,TWe haven’t reached agreement
on many points,” said Indonesian
Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, who
organized the three-day talks. “On
many points, further discussions will
have to be done.”
A statement cited differences among
the four warring Cambodian factions,
notably establishing an interim gov
ernment.
It said participants agreed the
Cambodians will conunue discussions
among themselves. Alatas said re
sults of those talks would determine
when to resume multilateral discus
sions
The Jakarta talks were aimed at
ending Vietnam’s 10-year military
occupation of Cambodia. They brought
together leaders of Vietnam, its ally
Laos, the Vietnamese-in stalled gov
ernment in Cambodia and three allied
guerrilla groups opposing it - the
communist Khmer Rouge and non
communist forces of Sihanouk and
Son Sann. Also participating were
members of the Association ofSoulh
east Asian Nations, which backs the
resistance - Brunei, Indonesia. Ma
laysia, the Philippines, Singapore and
Thailand.
The Cambodian factions clashed
throughout the talks and in more than
one arena.
According to a Thai military offi
cer, Khmer Rouge and Cambodian
government troops broke a lull of
several weeks on the eve of the talks
to trade heavy mortar and artillery
fire Saturday and Sunday near the key
Thai border town of Aranyaprathet.
The officer, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, said he did not know if
there were casualties.
At the talks, the pro-Vietnamese
government insisted it be allowed to
govern while elections are held. The
guerrillas demanded the Phnomh Penh
regime be replaced by a provisional
government of all four factions.
“How can you hold free elections
in a communist state?" said Siha
nouk’s son and representative, Prince
Norodom Ranariddh. Sihanouk boy
cotted the talks because he said his
proposals already have been rejected.
Vietnam’s representative, Foreign
Minister Nguyen Co Thach, was more
upbeat, telling reporters “the confer
ence has been successful.”
On Monday, Ranariddh said the
talks had to fail because the real solu
tion lay with the Soviet Union, which
arms the 50,000-70.000 Vietnamese
soldiers in Cambodia, and China, which
arms the guerrillas. He said nothing
would be achieved before the May
15-18 Sino-Soviet summit, the first in
30 years.
Both communist powers recently
have softened their positions and
declared their commitment to a nego
tiated Cambodian settlement
However, the Jakarta Post newspa
per Tuesday quoted Hun Sen. pre
mier of the pro-Vietnamese govern
ment in Cambodia, as saying, “1 do
not believe my ally (the Soviet Un
ion) will ever put pressure on me.”
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Khomeini
calls back
western plot
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
said Wednesday the mounting
Western condemnation of his
order to kill novelist Salman
Rushdie has proven the futility
of normalizing relations with
the rest of the world.
Iran's revolutionary patriarch
also declared that the publica
tion of Rushdie's "The Satanic
Verses’* was a Western plot
against Islam.
In New York, hundreds of
writers demonstrated Wednes
day against Khomeini's order
outside the Iranian Mission to
the United Nations and two book
stores that pulled "The Satanic
Verses" from its shelves.
The West’s stinging reaction
has exposed its "true nature and
longstanding hostility ... so
that we can come out of this
state of naivety ," Tehran radio
quoted Khomeini as saying.
